Ideas

Program.cs

@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ async Task RunMqttServer(string[] args)
         // .WriteTo.File(new RenderedCompactJsonFormatter(), "log.json", rollingInterval: RollingInterval.Hour)
         .CreateLogger();
 
-    // Create and configure MQTT server
     using var mqttServer = new MqttServerFactory()
         .CreateMqttServer(BuildMqttServerOptions());
     ConfigureMqttServer(mqttServer);
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ async Task RunMqttServer(string[] args)
     await host.StartAsync();
     var lifetime = host.Services.GetRequiredService<IHostApplicationLifetime>();
 
-    // Start MQTT server
     await mqttServer.StartAsync();
 
     // Configure graceful shutdown

README.md

@@ -62,9 +62,18 @@ services:
 
 ## Configuration Options
 
+- **Certificate**: Mount your PFX certificate file to `/app/certificate.pfx` in the container or preferably modify it in the parent folder after git cloning.
+- **Ports**: The application uses  8883 for SSL MQTT (default).
 
-- **Certificate**: Mount your PFX certificate file to `/app/certificate.pfx` in the container
-- **Ports**: The application uses  8883 for SSL MQTT (default) and port 1883 for standard MQTT
+## Ideas for MQTT mesh moderation
+
+- Rate-limiting a packet we've heard before
+- Rate-limiting packets per node
+- "Zero hopping" certain packets
+- Blocking unknown topics or undecryptable packets (from unknown channels)
+- Blocking or rate-limiting certain portnums
+- Fail2ban style connection moderation
+- Banning of known bad actors list
 
 ## Troubleshooting